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You would have thought Reagan was President when this movie took place.

posted 11 years ago by ryan-anderson
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They brought him up almost relentlessly while completely ignoring the fact that it was the Carter administration that that was approving so much of the aid shown here (as opposed to some ambassador). In fact, even after Archbishop Romero was killed Carter still continued to send aid. (In his last act in office, Carter approved a record level of weapons transfer to the junta just weeks after the rape and murder of those nuns.)

Not that RR didn’t support the junta while he was in office, but placing the blame on RR for what went on during the time period depicted in this film (the end of 1980) is ridiculous. (Stone even tried pinning one massacre on RR’s “transition team” that supposedly visited El Salvador.)

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[–] nickm2 11 years ago

Ryan, having watched history RE: Chiang, Syngman Rhee & Robert Mugabe over the years, I have concluded that Third World Scum ® are gonna act like third world scum RE: of what their allies think.

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[–] bluesguy 11 years ago

REAGAN WAS SO OVWERATED.....OVERATED....

I TRULY MISS STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!

[–] barodabulldog 10 years ago

In September 1980, the five major leftist revolutionary organizations merged to form the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The FMLN fielded a guerilla army to oppose government and right-wing paramilitary forces.

A few months later, in December 1980, four American churchwomen were raped and murdered by military and paramilitary forces. U.S. President Jimmy Carter responded by temporarily cutting off aid to El Salvador. But U.S. policy took a dramatic shift with the election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980. Asserting a hemispheric-wide national security strategy, the Reagan administration considered the Salvadoran government ? its atrocities notwithstanding ? a friend in the Cold War.